Kozma Prutkov

Quotes

• "Throwing pebbles into the water, look at the ripples they form on the surface. Otherwise this activity will be an empty amusement."
• "If you have a fountain, shut it down. Let even a fountain have a rest."
• "If you see a "buffalo" sign on an elephant's cage, do not trust your eyes."
• "If ever asked: What's more useful, the sun or the moon, respond: The moon. For the sun only shines during daytime, when it's bright anyway, whereas the moon shines at night."
• * This aphorism is usually associated with Mullah Nasruddin.
• "If you want to be happy, be so."
• * Frequently misattributed to Count Leo Tolstoy.
• "If you want to be handsome, enroll in the Hussars."
• "How pathetic is any constitution at sight of well-kept ammunition!"
• "Even an oyster has enemies"
• * Often quoted as "Even oysters have enemies"
• * E.g. Barbara Heldt Monter: Kozma Prutkov - the Art of Parody. Mouton 1973, p. 58 or Jack Nicholson at the 2010 AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony for Mike Nichols
• *, :ru:s:Мысли и афоризмы I
• "One cannot hatch the same egg twice."
• "Many things are incomprehensible to us, not because our concepts are weak, but because these things are not in the circle of our concepts."